Are you wondering if you still need a DSLR to shoot for 17吃瓜在线? It really wasn鈥檛 so long ago that your regular stock photographer was out on the road lugging around a camera kit bag that had a comparable weight to that of airline聽hand luggage allowance. Two camera bodies, an assortment of lenses, their associated filters, a tripod – I could go on, it all adds up to a lot of kit.
Nowadays this doesn鈥檛 need to be the case, you can choose whether you want to lug a camera around with you that has the weight of a house brick along with all of its paraphernalia, or travel with something聽a lot lighter. This coupled with means you can pretty much ditch a lot of the gear you鈥檇 have usually taken before, allowing you to travel with just your camera and a card reader.
Manufacturers now聽offer , and . These are a world away from your simple point & shoot and standard compact cameras which simply can鈥檛 produce the image quality desired. Instead they are now up to the job of a mid-range DSLR, letting you be more adventurous and creative with your locations and settings.
An increase in pixel counts and advancements in electronic noise control (could you imagine producing acceptable images from a DSLR at 6400 ISO 10 years ago?) have meant that there isn鈥檛 always the need to use a tripod for image stability in those low-light situations, or to bolt on your telephoto lens. To a certain extent, you can literally just turn up the ISO and crop into your file.
The smaller gear is generally cheaper, lighter, and more intuitive, so it really lends itself to those occasions where you want to blend in and go unnoticed. This is perfect for your budding stock shooter.
Whilst being as good as a DSLR in most聽situations, there are some circumstances where these cameras are never going to cut it against a pro spec DSLR equipped with the best lenses money can buy. Subjects that are in low light where faster focusing might be required aren鈥檛 going to be its strong point. Viewfinder fans might find the lack of one, or the introduction of an electronic viewfinder unnatural and hard to get used to. Also those used to the more conventional size of a large DSLR may find the smaller cameras fiddly to use, with big hands making it easy to press the wrong buttons.
There鈥檚 still no denying that for the ultimate in uncompromised technical and image quality the DSLR is still very much top of the classs. These smaller systems are catching up, and whilst they鈥檙e not quite biting on the heels of the DSLR, they are very good. They provide photographers with more choice and these days you have an awful lot more options out there than ever before. Just look at the impact smartphones have had on the compact camera聽market in a relatively short period of time.